The Erasmus Graduate School of Social Sciences and the Humanities fulfills a complementary role in providing research and training activities in relation to the existing programmes that are offered by various national research schools and networks.

• Netherlands Institute of Governance (NIG)
• Huizinga Institute
• Posthumus Institute
• The Netherlands School of Communication Research
• Research School for Resource Studies for Development (CERES)
• Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics (EIPE)
• Research Institute for Psychology & Health
• Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences (NIHES)
• Kurt Lewin Institute
• Interuniversity Graduate School of Psychometrics and Sociometrics (IOPS)
• Interuniversity  Center for Educational Sciences (ICO)
• Experimental Psychopathology (EPP)
• Graduate Research School Experimental Psychology (EPOS)
• Onderzoeksschool Wijsbegeerte (OZSW)